Marieke Self-Directed Research
My favorite English words right now:
1. Visceral
2. Cathartic
The most complete PORTRAIT possible
This research is about the notion of a visible identity. What are ways to make the most complete portrait possible? When is a portrait valid,genuine and authentic? How can you make the invisible parts of anatomy visible? Let's say with an MRI or X-Ray hospitals can make photos of the invisible. Or words are words also valuable when you describe a person?
But people are also fluid and ever-changing so maybe still figurative images wouldn't be a wise choice. Unless they would be able to say something more then the first-hand impression.
Before I had questions about the meaning of reality but this has grown into more specific questions. The questions I have now are more clearly focused on humanity I guess. Maybe this reality is now more translated into concepts of authenticity and genuineness. So when is an image humanized or dehumanized?
Important quotation from Steve's class: Maybe it's not about realities, but about different levels of abstraction.
Visual Research
As a result of the Toolbox class I made a personal challenge for myself: No programs for altering in experiments. This is to stop myself from always changing my imagery afterwards with digital programs. By doing this I hope to expand my visual language. I realized that with these programs I mainly tried to mimic infra-red, ultraviolet and (psuedo)solarisation images. So I decided to research new ways for me to get images like this.
Until now I have researched infra-red the most. I started this research by putting the Hoya IR72 filter over my Nikon D40 lens. A few of the results:
As you can see most of these pictures are not that clear and sharp.
There are some sharp ones but I didn't select them.
Because in a way the poetry loses when you see it clearly. (I'm not saying this is always the case)
So I think I prefer it when the information you get from the image stays vague in a way.
Resources
Artists that I find inspiring right now:
- Masahisa Fukase (Especially his Colour approach series) - http://masahisafukase.com/en/
- Jesse Kanda - http://www.jessekanda.com/
- Chris Cunningham - https://inverted-audio.com/visual/chris-cunningham-in-focus/
- Francis Bacon - https://vimeo.com/252319524
- Tacita Dean - http://www.tacitadean.net/
- Bill Viola - https://www.billviola.com/
Stuff on infra-red and solarisation:
- https://feltmagnet.com/photography/Photography-The-Sabattier-Effect
- https://emulsive.org/reviews/film-reviews/rollei-film-reviews/rollei-infrared-400-christopher-schmidtke
- https://thedarkroom.com/infrared-film-photography/
- http://www.infraredphoto.eu/gentleintro1/
Planned resources:
- Cesare Lombroso - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cesare-lombrosos-museum-of-criminal-anthropology
- Museum Boerhaave - https://rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/
- Morbid Anatomy - http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/
- Design and the Elastic mind - https://www.ted.com/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind?language=en
- Foundations of Social Theory, James Coleman - http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674312265
- CLARITY - https://www.nature.com/news/see-through-brains-clarify-connections-1.12768
- Matthew Cetta - https://www.wired.com/2013/08/matthew-cetta/
Reading List:
- The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Mary Ann Doane - 2002
- Psychofarmaca - Solomon H Snyder
- Taking the mask off - Cortland Pfeffer, Irwin Ozborne
- Mothernism- Lise Haller Baggesen
- Not that kind of girl - Lena Dunham